Off on our hols!

We're off in the morning for a three week tour of duty in the mother country. Or visiting DH's relatives in Greece if you prefer.

It's been very busy here with holiday entertainment and getting ready for the trip but we've been having a great time. Connor is growing fast and has his first tooth (he's had it for about three weeks now but I don't think I mentioned it before). Lia is extremely excited about seeing all her Greek relatives so is a little hyperactive and DH is in holiday mode which means he's not doing much, including packing...

I've got about 10 small stitching projects packed to take with me so finger's crossed I get some decent stitching time in.

Summer holidays days 11 to 16

No I didn't get bored detailing the minutae of our holiday life, I took the kids back to my hometown for a few days and, as I stayed with my sister, was away from all forms of modern communication (not only do they not have internet I forgot my mobile phone at home!)

So we had a nice few days down there chilling out and enjoying spending time with family. Now we're home we've spent the day chilling out with friends and making stuff with Hama beads (Lia made three things, her friends made one each and I made six. Really.)

DH is at a beer festival today so he'll be good for nothing tomorrow which is why I invited friends around for a BBQ. Ok, it's really because I'm trying to empty the freezer before we go away in nine days but I'm such an evil wife I'm going to enjoy him suffering a hangover whilst cooking burgers...

In other vaguely interesting news I'm no longer breast feeding. I was going to keep it up (I'd been thinking about stopping before suffering in the heat in Greece) but my body had other ideas and my milk started to dry up. I've no idea why as Connor was feeding the same as usual and I had had plenty of milk but we persevered for a week with him valiantly trying to stimulate the milk but to no avail. I gave him his last feed on Monday evening and since then he's been a bottle only boy.

Summer holidays days 9 and 10

A nice weekend here - yesterday DH and Lia had a day together painting, going to the cinema, etc whilst I looked after Connor. Today we visited friends and had a lovely day catching up with them and Lia got to play with their kids.

Summer holidays Day 8

Well a quiet day here as we stayed home and vegged out in front of the TV - we watched Nanny McPhee, lots and lots of Charlie and Lola and even more CBeebies. We did do some crafting this afternoon when Connor had a sleep but generally it was a vegging day :)

Summer holiday day 7

We went to a local farming museum which was fab and we did a 'make a farm in a box' activity which was fun - lots of colouring in and sticking.

In the afternoon we watched Toy Story as Lia's going to see number 3 on Saturday so we're building up to it LOL. Oh and we raided my bead box to make a necklace for Lia and another for Nayno (Lia's toy cat). Connor chilled out most of the day and was generally his usual happy self even though he does appear to have cut his first tooth!

Summer Holiday day 6

We spent the day at an RHS Garden with friends:

Summer Holiday day 5

Well we went out to the local library today as they had a 'play with Hama beads' session for kids. Lia made a heart and really enjoyed it - so much so that I've ordered a bunch of beads and stuff from Amazon. We've also painted her finger and toe nails and baked buns and iced them.

Connor is sleeping so I've just made lasagne for dinner with the idea that I can just stick it in the oven later and not have to worry about it when I'm feeding him.

I've also done a bit more cleaning up in the kitchen and made four pockets for the bags I'm making. Tonight will be ironing I think - hopefully it'll cool down as it's hot and sticky right now.

Oh and here's a pic of the pair of them...

Summer Holiday day 4

A quiet day at home given we were away for the weekend as chores needed to be done. Washing done, some ironing done, fridge cleaned, hob cleaned. Oh and a supermarket trip. And the guinea pigs cleaned.

Lia was a bit stir crazy by the evening but we did do some aqua beads and some maths plus I helped her finish up something she was making from one of her birthday presents. She gets dedicated Mum time when Connor sleeps so I hope we can do something she wants every day.

Connor, as usual, was a good boy and ate and slept as well as he always does.

Summer holidays Days 2 and 3

Well that was a quick weekend! We went to my hometown yesterday morning and stayed over at my sisters house coming back home this evening.

It was a lovely weekend - lots of friends for Lia to play with and lots of cuddles for Connor. Oh and a lovely BBQ today.

I am now wrestling with some homesickness - I haven't lived at home for 18 years but it is still home and all my family are there. Now my bro and my niece have littluns too it's hard to leave - Lia and her cousin Luisa adore each other and there were lots of tears when they had to say goodbye. We are going back in 10 days though so we can spend a little more time together but it's just not the same as being able to pop over whenever we want (it's a two hr drive).

Oh well, DH isn't averse to moving there so you never know, if the job situation works out we might end up there/

Summer Holidays Day 1

Lia woke at 6.45am, Connor at 8.00am

Lia has dressed as a Princess, drawn a million pictures, made a robot, done ten pages of a maths text book, played with her brother, watched Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang and the Wizard of Oz.

Connor has eaten loads, sucked his thumb a lot, rolled onto his front a million times each time eventually crying till I turn him back, pulled my hair a lot and had a nice long (4 hr) nap.

I've tidied all the DVDs and done some ironing. All in all a nice chilled day!